Some people just do not know when to shut the hell up before they further embarrass themselves. The perfect example would be Donald Trump, who love to shoot off his mouth–especially on Twitter–and then have to face the consequences a few hours later.
Another practitioner of the shoot from the lip method of communication is the former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. On “Face the Nation” yesterday, Giuliani commented that parents of African-American children should teach them to “be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police.”
And now Giuliani has doubled down on his remarks, making this ludicrous assertion earlier this morning on “Fox and Friends”:
“I believe I saved a lot more black lives than Black Lives Matter. I don’t see what Black Lives Matter is doing for blacks other than isolating them. All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks. It doesn’t care about the 90 percent of blacks that have been killed by other blacks. That’s just a simple fact. That is a simple fact.”
The utterly clueless former mayor then added:
“When I was searching for Colombian drug dealers, I wasn’t looking for black guys. When they told me it’s one of Nicky Barnes’ crew, or it’s one of Frank James’ crew, then I started searching for black guys. That’s what proper profiling is about.”
And then, right out of the first page of the GOP playbook, Giuliani tried to shift the focus from the killing of five police officers in Dallas to Black Lives Matter. Specifically touching on the motive of the man who shot the officers, he said:
“If you can’t untangle the motives of man who explained the motives on tape there’s something wrong with you,” Giuliani said. “He explained his motives. I was a prosecutor. Sometimes it’s hard to prove motive. When somebody tells me on tape why they committed a murder I now know why. Here’s why he committed the murder. He told the negotiator this. He wanted to kill white people, he wanted to kill white cops and he was sympathetic to Black Lives Matter. That’s what he said. Three things; Black Lives Matter, kill white police, kill white people.”
Please be sure and note that Rudy didn’t say a single thing about the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police officers which led to the protests in Dallas that wound up giving the sniper a chance to shoot at officers. Those facts don’t fit Giuliani’s larger narrative that all cops are good and all black people are seeking to kill the first officer they see.
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